Eugen Schauman

Eugen Schauman (10 May 1875-16 June 1904) was a Finnish nationalist who assassinated Governor-General Nikolay Bobrikov in a murder-suicide in 1904.

Biography
Eugen Schauman was born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (present-day Kharkiv, Ukraine) to a family of Finns, the son of a soldier in the Imperial Russian Army. He worked as a clerk in the Senate of Finland, having become a nationalist due to his yearning for home in Finland and his reading of The Tales of Ensign Stal, a book written about the war between Sweden and Russia over Finland in 1808-1809. On 16 June 1904, he shot Governor-General Nikolay Bobrikov three times in the Senate of Finland, and he then proceeded to shoot himself twice in the chest. Both men died, and Schauman is currently hailed as a national hero in Finland (rated the 34th greatest Finn of all time), with a memorial plaque being located in the Senate of Finland to commemorate him.